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Remarc & Carasel live at Champion Sound

On an afternoon like this, when it’s sunny and you’re utterly spent from a weekend, it’s easy to fumble over words, spending far too long trying to choose the best way to put something. But sometimes serendipity has an even more poignant way of putting it and well, describing Remarc’s music is very much like the affected sound-bite introduction to Remarc’s FABRICLIVE x Planet Mu Mix says: “Remarc: original junglist badboy sound”. 

For our purpose today, it’s undoubtedly easier to talk about Planet Mu’s involvement in Remarc’s career, considering that the jungle pioneer and respected master of the amen drum break will be appearing in the Mu hosted Room Two on Friday 20th June. But the fact is, they first started working together reissuing Remarc’s earlier material on the Sound Murderer album, so you can’t really even try and avoid it. That said, the first tune of his that a lot of people latched onto and recognised was ‘Ricky’, a track released in 1993 on his own Dollar label…

As you can hear, the template for a cataclysm of such bounding bass lines and scattershot drum programming that personify jungle music was starting to be interpreted by Remarc in a pretty violent way. Not violent because of the perceived aggression or the tortured “RICKY!” screech, it’s more his approach to layering, to cutting and pasting and micro-editing the drum work that becomes so shocking or confrontational. That sense of an aural threat translated into track titles like ‘R.I.P’, ‘Single Finga Killa’, ‘Stick Em Up’ and ‘Sound Murderer’ which was extrapolated by Mu as the perfect phrase to encapsulate a collection of his early music. 

Sharing a lot of the energy and complexity of the Planet Mu roster’s output, Remarc’s brazen and broken brew of beats and breaks found the perfect kinship with the label. Being just as manic and as layered as a lot of the music they're known for, it makes complete sense that the label would call upon Remarc to represent jungle to the fullest and appear on a bill with Luke Vibert, Neil Landstrumm, Ital and Ital Tek a week on Friday. 

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Advance tickets: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/906

Remarc - FABRICLIVE x Planet Mu Mix

Dj Monk , Dance Hall Style , 2014 Remixes - Aries & Pappa Gee Remix

BIZZY B VS THE HRD CREW, CHECK ONE original mix

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100% vinyl mix to promote Remarc's visit to Jungle Jungle @ Razzmatazz, Barcelona, on July 15, 2010.

1. Remarc - Sound Murderer (Loafin' in Brokley Mix)
2. Remarc - Ice Cream + Syrup (Hard Mix)
3. Prizna  Feat. Demolition Man - Fire (Remarc Remix)
4. Remarc - 2:01
5. Remarc - Ricky (Remarc VIP Mix)
6. Baggga Worries & Jooxie Nice - Legalise (Remarc VIP Mix)
7. Remarc - Suicidal
8. Remarc - R.I.P. (Remarc Remix)

Jungle Jungle Loves Remarc

Remix by Judge Jules & Roy the Roach , close friends of the person responsible for our signing to ZTT Katie Ketchup..

01 Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation (Buster's Sweet Salsa Mix) - ZTT - Vinyl

10 Summer Of 89 - Shades Of Rhythm - ZTT CD

ZTT pressed up 40,000 copies of this 12" EP only to Burn the whole lot in Germany after an Ulta Magnetic MC  sample (pick em up ) couldnt get clearance. We were told the Band were not speaking and it could not get sample clearance no matter what the cost ! This EP only came out on promo , so about 500 copies out there... We were to have 3 more releases on ZTT but our trust was diminishing.... surely you wouldnt go ahead with manufacture unless sample clearance was sucessful? The band was to pay a high price for this mistake, both finanically and creatively. The relationship between the Band and record company was over, it was just a case of delivering what we owed and finding a new home for our music. This was going to prove harder than we imagined, with the rave scene dwindling  and the band burnt out from gigging non stop we were about to enter what we refere to as "the dark years"....

01 Shades Of Rhythm - Happy Feelings - ZTT - Vinyl

First ever Amen Allstars sound clash! Remarc, Bizzy B & Equinox @ BANGFACE Weekender 2011

Amen Allstars: Remarc, Bizzy B & Equinox @ BANGFACE Weekender 2011

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For those who don't know, Bizzy B's Brain label was one of the most futuristic in the early days when hardcore was becoming jungle. From 92-94 they released some of the best junglistic'ardcore there was. Classics like Darkness, Weekend, Dubplate Wars, 2 Dope ep, and artists like TDK whose TOG sublabel was a peak of amen choppage). Brain also put out the debut releases of Marc Caro (Technical Itch), Peshay and DJ Zinc (in the Swift and Zinc eps) and Slammin' Vinyl's Mike Slammer and Red Alert's first 2 releases. Bizzy also released many a classic on other labels such as Slowjam & DarkIII on Whitehouse, Stamina and Raw Dogs Relik on Suburban Base and many more. He's recently been producing 2-step and Breaks with his Undercover Agents label and still releases drum'n'bass under "Warped Science" (latest being 'After F' on Charge with DJ Fresh on the same ep). Brian's ep for us is a new update of the Old Skool sound "New Old School" if you will. Using todays production values so it'll kick in a drum'n'bass set in 04. As played by Andy C, Bailey et al...

CONTRIBUTIONS:

ZIQ117.//BIZZY B 
SCIENCE EP VOLUME IV / SCIENCE EP VOLUMES III+IV 

ZIQ107.//BIZZY B 
SCIENCE E.P. VOL.III 

ZIQ095.//AMÃ‚ÂµNITION 
DARKSIDE
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